Gold-Mining in Zimbabwe: Poverty Alleviation

Government opposition to mining is a result of concerns that mining leads to environmental degradation and political instability. To some extent, these concerns are legitimate – mining relies not only on the use of dangerous chemicals but can also lead to water pollution and landscape erosion, and can also result in community tensions when workers of differing ethnicities and ideologies flood into mining towns.
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